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Ethiopia Dry Process Yirga Cheffe Cheleba is a nice later arrival Ethiopia new to our list. With actual "new crop" Ethiopias still a few months out, this fruit-forward cup rounds out our Ethiopia offers nicely. The profile is loaded with berry and fruit punch flavors, pectin sweetness, and a nice cocoa finish.

Brazil Fazenda IP Yellow Bourbon is pulp natural processed coffee, so while fruit flavors do show in the profile (especially when cool), it is much more oriented around flavors of burned sugar and cocoa.

For this installment of our Bi Weekly roasted coffee pairing, I roasted two very different coffees from Ethiopia. Though they are both wet process coffees, and were both roasted to a City + roast range, their flavor profiles are quite different.

The aroma is pleasant, and filled with florals. This coffee really shines with juicy fruit notes of apricot, citrus, and mango, as well as a thick honeyed sweetness. We were really happy with the way this one turned out and it's a great example of why Ethiopian coffees are known for their fruit notes and floral aromas. Makes a great pour over.

We slightly drew out the final roast leg with this one, taking it a tad south of City+. Unlike the floral and fruit aspects of Nano Challa, Mankira boasts a rustic sweetness, viscous body, and is rounded out by bittersweet cocoa and a hint of aromatic wood. There is definitely acidity too, but it is more subtle, and reminiscent of candied citrus peel.

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Workshop #34 - Ewe Tu, is the first blend of 2015, which is the Year of the Sheep in the Chinese Zodiac chart. A blend of washed Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea coffees, this is an espresso on the wilder side, syrupy sweet, and loaded with chocolate complexity.

Burundi Kibande Ruyaga is our latest new crop Africa coffee, and strikes a nice balance between honeyed sweetness and lemon-like acidity in the light roast ranges.

Guatemala Antigua Finca Cabrejo. One of the most balanced and Guatemalas we purchase, not to mention versatile in the roaster, and in brew method. Hopefully we can keep this one going for another few weeks yet!

Papua New Guinea Bauka Ginipa is the newest PNG. All of the Bauka Plantation coffees we bought this year have been unique from one to the next, and this coffee continues that streak, with complex molasses sugars and roasted barley tea flavors.

Java Sunda Andes is another of the Java Sunda project, this year working with small holders on various peaks in west Java. This lot from the peak "Andes" cups more similar to a Central American coffee than Indonesian, with clean expressions of toffee and chocolate. A balanced cup and "classic" profile single origin espresso.